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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: Chris Leach <chris_leach@live.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:05:52 -0400
Subject: Dear, very important, reply to: igoadvocate@netcourrier.com

Dear,   
I have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this matter and I hope that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that I am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families. We have never met before but I believe that with time we will know each other better. Let me start by introducing myself properly to you. I am Barrister I.W Nkwa, The personal Attorney to late Eng. J.C Young an oil Merchant with the Ecowas, I want to let you know that before the death of Eng. Young, he willed the sum of 19.5Million dollars to his nice who through my investigation is confirmed died along side with her entire family in 2002 hurricane that happened in Florida, Efforts have been made by the Financial Bank managements to get in touch with her or any relative of her to come and claim this money but they have met with no success. Now the management under the influence of the bank Chairman and Members of the Board of directors has made arrangements for the fund to be declared Unclaimed so that they can share the money among themselves.

 

To stop their negative plans and for the benefit of our both families, I wish to present you to the bank as the next of kin to the money so that the bank will pay this money to you as the only surviving relative of my client since your name can be added in his personal file and last testament that is with me, do not worry about that legal documents to back it up because every documents that we may need to back it up will be legally worked out and I assure you that all procedures will be done legally and the money release to you legally as the original next of kin without anything to tarnish your reputable image or honor.

 

As for me I am ready to share the money 50-50%, 50% for you and 50% for me too, the total money is 19 Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollar together with the interest that the money has yielded since these past years, we should be talking about 23to25 Million and that is not what you wish we let the bank take just like that, if you can be honest with me as a good partner and friend, I assure you that in the next seven working days these money will be release and transfer into your account legally as the original inheritor of these money, all I want is your sincerity and good partnership.

Waiting to hear from you, you can call me on 00229-973-420-44 and I will also like to have your personal number for easy communication.  Do reply me with the following email : igoadvocate@netcourrier.com    

Yours Sincerely,
Barrister I.W Nkwa (Esq)

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